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WP Travel Engine <= 5.3.0 — Editor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2021-24680Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.3.0Update to 5.3.1 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.5
CVSS
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

WP Travel Engine – Tour Booking Plugin – Tour Operator Software wp-travel-engine

  1. Affected≤ 5.3.0
  2. Patched in5.3.1

Update to 5.3.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.3.0. Version 5.3.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Travel Engine – Tour Booking Plugin – Tour Operator Software.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.3.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP Travel Engine – Tour Booking Plugin – Tour Operator Software to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Huy Nguyen.

The WP Travel Engine WordPress plugin before 5.3.1 does not escape the Description field in the Trip Destination/Activities/Trip Type and Pricing Category pages, allowing users with a role as low as editor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in WP Travel Engine – Tour Booking Plugin – Tour Operator Software

All 23
More vulnerabilities in WP Travel Engine – Tour Booking Plugin – Tour Operator Software
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.5Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion via 'template' Shortcode Attribute
≤6.8.0Update to 6.8.1
CVE-2026-9231
High7.5Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Disclosure via 'booking_id' Parameter
≤6.8.4Update to 6.8.5
CVE-2026-17087
Medium5.3Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated Booking Details Disclosure and Modification
≤6.8.4Update to 6.8.5
CVE-2026-16737
Medium5.3Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Update
<6.8.2Update to 6.8.2
CVE-2026-12500
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Payment Bypass
≤6.8.1Update to 6.8.2
CVE-2026-12501

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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